Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison attacked Fox News host Sean Hannity on-air tonight in what is surely one of the most explosive and contentious interviews between an anchor and a politician in recent history.

Rep. Ellison began the interview by calling Hannity “the worst excuse for a journalist I’ve ever seen.” He went on to accuse Hannity of violating “every journalistic ethic I have ever heard of” and called him “a shill for the Republican Party.”

Hannity calmly endured the attacks from the Minnesota congressman and tried in vain to assure him that he was not a registered Republican, but rather a registered conservative. He finally gave up and told Rep. Ellison to “keep ranting.”

The congressman’s remarks came after Hannity aired footage of President Obama giving two similar interviews about the looming effects of sequestration, set against a soundtrack of “O Fortuna,” from the Carmina Burana. Hannity said the President was “more concerned with fearmongering than finding a solution to the problem he created.”

Using the word “journalist” in the presence of InSean Vannity is an insult to the profession. InSean Vannity is a bottom feeder whose only purpose to placate other bottom feeders and societies’ lowest common denominator.

I’m happy that someone called Hannity out on his show. Thanks for posting it. I watched his jerkoff routine for a short while many years ago and just woke the fuck up. He’s a jackass. A smug self assured smarmy jackass who does engage in Yellow Journalism on a Yellow Journalism channel.

They are the ones who gave us “she who is not a witch” O’Donnel - the membership rolls are very heavy with traditionalist and fundamentalist Irish and Italian Catholics of the Pat Buchanan / Hannity populist stripe.

Or he could have just meant he is a “conservative not a Republican” in ideology. Either way, not much difference between the two.

Maybe but I just felt it needed to be pointed out since Hannity is a New Yorker and they do have a Conservative Party but you are right that many conservatives try to cop out of the Republican Party label by claiming that they’re “Conservatives, first” which is silly since nearly all them support the Republicans anyhow.

They are the ones who gave us “she who is not a witch” O’Donnel - the membership rolls are very heavy with traditionalist and fundamentalist Irish and Italian Catholics of the Pat Buchanan / Hannity populist stripe.

O’Donnell is Delaware but yes the New York Conservative Party’s origins are with ultra conservative Catholics. I believe William F. Buckley’s brother, Jim was a founding member.

Well if anyone ws going to explode , it may as well been Ellison . But I take exception to any description of Hannity as a “New Yorker ” . That term in reserved for those born in the Five Boroughs .
Hannity was born in Franklin Square , making him a “lawn-gilander ” .And born in ‘61 excludes him from any understanding whatsoever of the 60’s, which he’s so quick to put blame on the hippies and “leftist -commies ” who protested the war , for all the societal and moral woes which we face today .
His age also qualifies him as a chicken hawk in the arena of war mongering .
One of the denizens of Breitbart in response to accusations of Hannity being a Yellow Journalist and LIAR was ” Hannity is a conservative talk show host not a journalist ” ….so I guess that connotation is synonymous with Liar and Yellow Journalist .